Little Rachel, The Curse, Sleepover

[00:00:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was looking at the house in the middle that was always empty and I saw a face.

[00:00:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Welcome to Tell Me A Ghost Story.

[00:00:24] [SPEAKER_04]: The late night call-in podcast where we delve into the world of the supernatural and explore

[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_04]: the eerie and unexplained.

[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm your host, Michelle Newman.

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_04]: This podcast features true stories from our callers that will send shivers down your spine

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_04]: and leave you questioning the existence of the afterlife.

[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_04]: So grab a cozy blanket, turn down the lights.

[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Hi, I'm Cindy and I'm calling from Avon, Indiana.

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I have a true ghost story to tell you.

[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm haunted by the little girl from Mitchell, Indiana, Westmoreton State, Rachel.

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_01]: She burned in death in a Christmas fire and she haunts me because I gave her two saffols

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_01]: of toys two years ago at Christmas but she has followed me home and haunted me ever since

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_01]: and I've had two ghost stories on YouTube about her and about her antics.

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I had a ghost investigation on my birthday.

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I retired from Indiana State Police after 30 years, civilian, and she haunted me at

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_01]: my birthday party and we did capture some EVPs from Commonwealth, Kentucky of Indiana

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_01]: and Westgate and Rachel is ruined to me too.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Plus we got some other alien energies I'd like to tell you about.

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_01]: She possesses a haunted doll in mind and she haunts me to this day.

[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for calling in Cindy.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure I speak for our fellow callers.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_04]: We want to hear all your stories.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Next message.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: My name is Phil from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_00]: About five years ago I purchased a property just across the state line in Georgia.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_00]: The property had three houses and these were identical and they were about 20 feet apart.

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Two of the properties were livable and had tenants in them and the property and

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_00]: the house in the middle had no tenant and it was not livable.

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And the two guys that were working there, living there, they ended up hiring them

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_00]: to work for me and it wasn't long after maybe six months after I bought the property that

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_00]: one of the guys was murdered in the driveway.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: He was beaten to death with a hammer.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know, a few months later, the other guy that lived in there, he moved

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: in his girlfriend and he moved in his girlfriend's adult son.

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't long after the adult son moved in that he died on the property from an overdose

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_00]: of fentanyl.

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And then not long after that, the lease holder's girlfriend, she had a stroke and she laid

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_00]: in the house for several hours and ended up with permanent disabilities.

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And not long after that, 30 days after that approximately, the lease holder, he had to

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: go to the hospital and he was told that he had six weeks to live.

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_00]: He lasted three, so he died at the property.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And by that time I was, I think, wow, this thing, there must be cursed or something.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And all three of the, all the tenants that ever lived there, they told me that they could

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: see somebody and hear somebody in the empty house in the middle.

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And I just happened to be at the house one day and the gentleman next door lived across

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_00]: the street, brother.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And he motioned me to come over and he was telling me about the house and I was,

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, telling him what happened.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's not told him, in the house cursed or something.

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And he told me that there had been a lot more than the people that I knew had died

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_00]: in that property.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Then I mentioned, hey, how come?

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's not a very good neighborhood.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: It's never been vandalized.

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I'm kind of like the property and the old man said, well, not anyone

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: in this neighborhood will dare set foot in that property.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So I decided to sell it and I told the guy who bought it, he was an investor.

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: He was going to demo the three and put a duplex there.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And I gave him the info of all the issues I had with it and he told me

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: he didn't believe in that hocus pocus and he bought the property and I met

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_00]: him out there one night, one evening rather to finalize the paperwork.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And just after dark, I was sitting in the driveway and I was waiting for him to show up

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and I was looking at the house in the middle that was always empty.

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And I saw a face that was peering out the glass.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I could not make out any distinctive features, but it was a face.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And a few months later he shows up.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_00]: He signs the paperwork, we shake hands.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And two months later, he had a medical emergency and he ended up

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_00]: with permanent disabilities himself.

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: At this point when I've been by that property, it still looks like it did five years ago.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_00]: He never touched it.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: He still owns it and I'm not sure if he's ever going to touch it.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_00]: But the absolute truth is the place is haunted and maybe cursed.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for calling in Phil from Chattanooga.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm happy you ended up selling that place.

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_04]: You did that guy a solid by warning him about all that hocus pocus.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_04]: I did some research and there's no death disclosure requirement

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_04]: in real estate in Georgia.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_04]: But maybe there should be some sort of regulation for curses.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Next message.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Hi, my name is Lauren.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I've actually called in before regarding another incident that I had seen,

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_02]: but I didn't even think about this particular incident

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_02]: that I'm going to talk about that happened whenever I was actually

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_02]: freshly out of high school.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_02]: A friend of mine, she had this apartment

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_02]: and it was in Round Rock, Texas.

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I'd stayed over at this apartment with her numerous times.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_02]: No issues. Nothing had ever happened.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Nothing even remotely spooky ever.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_02]: And then she also lived in this apartment with another couple.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_02]: It was her and then it was a couple, a guy and a girl.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And they occupied the other bedroom in this apartment.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_02]: And unfortunately, during the duration of time that they looked together,

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_02]: the older brother of the male roommate had passed away suddenly

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_02]: in a drowning incident where he was trying to save somebody else.

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_02]: That was, I guess, drowning in a body of water

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_02]: and then he himself actually drowned.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And so this guy, he ended up going to the funeral

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_02]: and whenever he came back from the funeral,

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_02]: he had brought some of his brothers, like sentimental belongings,

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_02]: a few of them back with him to their apartment,

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_02]: the shared apartment in Round Rock.

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And he and I felt that was my friend,

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_02]: she had like a birthday celebration because it was her birthday

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_02]: and we had all gone out.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_02]: The roommates, my friend, myself and my younger sister

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_02]: had all gone out to eat.

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And then they came back to the apartment

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_02]: and it was already late

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_02]: and so everybody was going to sleep and all that.

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And so my friend went to her room

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_02]: and the couple roommate, they went to their room

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_02]: and then my sister and I slept in the living room

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_02]: and I passed out first out of my sister and I.

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And this is before my sister could drive or anything

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_02]: and so I remember I woke up the next morning

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_02]: and my sister was gone and I was like, what the heck?

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_02]: So I looked at my phone

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_02]: and my mom had sent me a text message saying

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_02]: that she had come to get my sister early that morning.

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Didn't really go into detail as to why,

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_02]: just saying that my sister wanted to leave.

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And so I didn't really ask any questions,

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I just kind of assumed maybe she got bored,

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_02]: she couldn't sleep or whatever.

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_02]: And I believe it was my mom that was telling me

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_02]: that my sister called her really early in the morning,

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_02]: I wanna say, that following morning after the birthday

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_02]: stating that she was so scared

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_02]: because she heard somebody in the kitchen,

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_02]: nobody was awake but she swore

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_02]: that she heard somebody in the kitchen

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_02]: like ruffling around opening and closing doors,

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_02]: cooling up, whatever, ruffling around

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_02]: and she freaked out.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And she asked my mom to get her

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_02]: and my mom came and got her and took her home

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_02]: and that was that.

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And she's never mentioned it to me again since

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_02]: but my mom still remembers the incident

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_02]: and I thought that was crazy.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_02]: And then shortly thereafter, right?

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Because that didn't sort of happen

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_02]: and I put it out on my mind.

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And then afterwards, my friend,

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_02]: she started telling me about how

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_02]: they started having these incidents

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_02]: where every single kitchen cabinet in their kitchen

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_02]: would be open, like randomly.

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody would be in the apartment.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody would have been at work, whatever.

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody would sleep, whatever the case may be

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_02]: and then it would wake up or come back home

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_02]: and every single kitchen cabinet would be open

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_02]: including the ones that were way high

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_02]: at the top that nobody could reach.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Ironically, there was one day

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_02]: particularly that my friend in Iowa

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_02]: we were hanging out, her roommates were at work

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_02]: and I don't know, we got tired

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_02]: so we ended up going to her room

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_02]: and I fell asleep on her futon

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_02]: as she fell asleep in her bed in her room

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_02]: with the door shut, nobody else in the apartment,

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_02]: dead bolts, you know.

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody was in the apartment other than us.

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_02]: And when we woke up, I remember we were like,

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_02]: woke up and we like obviously went out into the apartment

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_02]: and then we looked in the kitchen.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I saw for myself every single cabinet,

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_02]: every drawer pulled out open in the kitchen

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_02]: and neither one of us had been out there.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody had come into the apartment or anything

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_02]: but it was pretty weird how like after that

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_02]: brother's stuff had been brought in,

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_02]: how all that stuff started to happen in the apartment.

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_02]: So we never really found out an answer for that

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_02]: and like to this day I have no idea what that was or,

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_02]: you know, and also a two side note,

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_02]: my sister didn't know anything about the brother's stuff

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_02]: being brought into the apartment prior to her

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_02]: having that incident in the kitchen

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_02]: or hearing somebody in the kitchen while everyone was asleep

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_02]: so she had no bias in her mind or whatever

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_02]: that made her scare her.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_02]: So it was pretty weird.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you, Lauren for your story.

[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_04]: This is getting added to the what is going on in Texas file.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_04]: That's all we have this week folks.

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